Pat Cadigan has been a professional
freelance writer for thirteen years, full-time since 1987. Her
short fiction has appeared in Omni, Isaac Asimov's Science
Fiction Magazine, The Twilight Zone, The Magazine of Fantasy
& Science Fiction, and in numerous anthologies, including
Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology, Shadows, Tropical Chills,
Blood Is Not Enough, Alien Sex, A Whisper of Blood, Alternate
Presidents, Alternate Kennedys, Little Deaths, Sisters of the
Night, and in many best-of-the-year anthologies as well. She has
been nominated for the Nebula, the Hugo, and the World Fantasy
Award. In 1988, she won the Locus Readers' Poll in the short
story category for a piece called "Angel," and won it
again in 1990 in the best collection category for Patterns. Her
work has also been translated into French, German, Finnish,
Polish, Japanese, Russian, and Czechoslovakian.

Her first novel, Mindplayers, was nominated
for the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award. Patterns, her short
fiction collection, appeared in hardcover from Ursus Imprints in
1989, and also from Grafton Books (UK; October, 1991). It was
nominated for the Bram Stoker and the Thorpe Menn Awards. Her
second novel, Synners, came out from Bantam Books under the
Spectra Special Editions imprint in February 1991 and won the
Arthur C. Clarke Award in Great Britain; it was also a Nebula
nominee. Bantam-Spectra published her third novel, Fools, in
November, 1992. Published in Britain in 1993, it won the Arthur
C. Clarke Award. Her next science fiction novel will be published
by Tor. In September, 1993, Ziesing Books brought out a new
collection of her short fiction entitled Dirty Work.

Cadigan has spoken at many writers'
conferences, including the Florida Suncoast Writers Conference,
where she and Ellen Datlow, fiction editor of Omni magazine, gave
seminars together as well as separately. She has also given
seminars at Johnson County Community College, Longview, and Avila
College. She taught a weeklong workshop at Clarion West, and has
lectured on the future at International Space University at
M.I.T. In March 1992, she was featured in the Whitney Museum's
Performing Bodies and Smart Machines series, as part of a panel
discussion of Writers on the Future of the Body and Technology.
She has consulted for Kodak and Hallmark Cards and gave a
presentation at Shippensburg University in January 1993 on the
future of popular culture. Cadigan was one of the featured
speakers at the London Institute For Contemporary Arts conference
on the future of virtual reality in March 1994, and in May, 1994
she gave a presentation at the University of Warwick in Coventry,
U.K. as part of the Virtual Futures conference, with Stelarc, the
Australian performance artist. She has also spoken at the 1994
Women in Cyberspace Conference at M.I.T. with Brenda Laurel, Amy
Bruckman, and Sherry Turkle.

The May, 1992 issue of Elle magazine
profiled her as one of the women writers whose work is changing
and reshaping the field of science fiction and in the October,
1993 issue of Mademoiselle, she was featured as one of six
"computer goddesses." She has made several appearances
on Toronto's Prisoners of Gravity TV show,discussing topics
ranging from cyberspace to dreams to the future of publishing.

Cadigan began her college education at the
University of Massachusetts in Amherst as a theatre major, but
transferred to the University of Kansas and graduated in 1975.
She studied creative writing with writer and sf historian James
Gunn, and was an attendee of the first Institute for the Teaching
of Science Fiction. She was also one of the first readers for the
Audio‚Reader program, a closed‚circuit radio station for the
blind. After a ten‚year career writing and editing for Hallmark
Cards, she stayed in Kansas and took up writing full‚time. In
August 1996 she migrated to England. Pat now lives in north
London with her husband, Chris Fowler, and her son Bob. She has
an attachment to the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit at the
University of Warwick, as a Visiting Scholar.

Pat Cadigan, acclaimed by the London Guardian
as "The Queen of Cyberpunk", is the author of three
novels, Mindplayers, Synners and Fools;
and three short story collections, Patterns, Home By
The Sea, and Dirty Work. Some of her short stories
also appeared in Letters from Home, alongside work by
Karen Joy Fowler and Pat Murphy. Pat completed her fourth novel, Tea
from an Empty Cup, in March 1997. It will be published in
Autumn 1998 in the USA and November 1998 in the UK. Pat continues
to publish short fiction. Recent stories are in New Worlds,
Dark Terrors 3, and the Christmas issue of Interzone.

Pat Cadigan was born in Schenectady, New
York, and grew up in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Attending the
University of Massachusetts on a scholarship, she eventually
transferred to the University of Kansas where she received her
degree. Pat was an editor and writer for Hallmark Cards in Kansas
City for ten years before embarking on her careers as a fiction
writer in 1987.

Since that time her Hugo and Nebula
Award-nominated short stories have appeared in such magazines as Omni,
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Asimov's
Science Fiction Magazine, as well as numerous anthologies.
Her first collection, Patterns, was honoured with the
Locus Award in 1990.

Pat Cadigan moved to England in August
1996, and now lives in North London, with her son Bob Fenner,
husband Chris Fowler, and their cat, Calgary.